This experiment has concluded and the affected settings have been restored to their previous values.
I'll be compiling the results next week. Big thanks to everyone for their feedback and patience! ...

Stage 2 completed: The initial phase of the burndown was completed on 2014-03-03 10:48:49; the second phase completed on 2014-03-08 at 19:41. Detailed statistics on how these played out can be found ...

I have encountered numerous questions in with the sprite-kit tag such as:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23215645/should-i-use-sprite-kit-for-a-simple-game-like-flappy-bird-or-games-that-simpler
...

I posted the following question on SO today:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28373291/whats-the-relationship-between-flask-login-and-flask-security
The question was almost immediately put on hold ...

For many, many years users have asked and asked and asked for changes to the number of close votes and the number of reviews per day. There's been a little bit of skepticism as to the efficacy of such ...

Going through my old close votes, I noticed the following:
If I have cast an off-topic close vote, I cannot see what that vote was, as I cannot navigate to the off-topic section as I would be able to ...

Reviewing (together with interlinking existing content) is one of the key tasks for the SO community now that the site is past its initial growth stage. And the infamous overload of review queues and ...

I run out of close votes a lot. In fact, in almost any given day in which I actively participate, I use up all of my close votes! And I am really, in the grand scheme of things, not a very active user ...

Users are freaking out over the number of questions with close votes. More so when they look at the review queue and have to grab a newspaper to fan themselves as they do declare that the high number ...

I've been spending a lot of time in the close vote queue. I feel that there is a problem with the tools available to me there or in the triage queue. As a syllogism, er, wait, I have three premises:
...

While I was trying to understand some question, it got a few upvotes.
So it got me thinking - these upvoters probably understood it and thought it was good. So it would be great if they edited it in ...

For example, today I saw yet another such question - Check if a string contains at least 10 digits, 12 uppercase letter and 20 lowercase letter. This is not the first one I'm seeing, either.
Should ...

Situation:
We can see many posts containing links to code / images (snapshot) of code. These posts are bad because
The code in the question (image) cannot be indexed for future search.
Tough to copy-...

Again I am asking to remove the daily vote cap for up-/down votes and close votes for trusted users (let's say +10k) of the site.
Besides the vague "we like to prevent you from exhaustion" argument, ...

As a moderator, I sometimes have to delete bad answers. Sometimes, those answers are edited after I've deleted them, and it turns into an episode of "The Big Bad Moderator".
This doesn't just happen ...

Kind of related to Can we talk about the voting culture here on Meta?, but that one is about downvoting. I want to talk about close-voting and delete-voting. For quite some time I noticed that there ...

After reading "My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow: Arthur S., Arthur T., and the Soup Nazi" one of our developers wondered what would happen if we didn't have close votes. Disclaimer: I don'...

parse.com is shutting down at the end of the year, and Stack Overflow is getting flooded with off topic questions asking for alternatives (more than 11 in the last 8 hours). Some are already closed, ...

The issue of changing close votes has come up before quite a few times. I understand the rationale for not generally permitting changing votes. However, there is a specific, very common case with a ...

By chance I found out that an old question of mine has been deleted. Given that it was very old and highly upvoted, I didn’t lose any reputation and—according to current standards—it was indeed off ...

This question seems (to me) massively, overly broad Dynamic UserControls within ASP.NET Wizard.
But I can't close it as because it has an active bounty. What should be done? Does the posting of the ...

Most of the times, when I close a question as duplicate, I open a new tab to make a quick google search to get the question ID, to then close the question.
I almost never find the duplicate, which I ...

I received the e-mail below about a close vote I cast, from another SO user that I had met at a conference 5 years ago and exchanged a couple of work-related emails with since. I have no interest in ...